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1910-1919


1910

  • Edward VII dies.
  • George V becomes King of the United Kingdom.
  • The earth passes through the tail of Comet Halley.
  • The Tango Catches On

1911

  • Aircraft used as a military weapon in Turkish-Italian War.
  • Chinese Republic proclaimed after revolution.
  • Ernest Rutherford Discovers the Structure of an Atom
  • The Incan City of Machu Picchu Discovered
  • Mona Lisa Is Stolen
  • Roald Amundsen Reaches the South Pole

1912

  • Titanic sinks on maiden voyage.
  • New Mexico and Arizona admitted as states of the USA.
  • Henri Seimet flies non stop from Paris to London in three hours.
  • Parachutes Invented
  • Piltdown Man, the "Missing Link," Discovered (Fraud)

1913

  • Henry Ford develops first moving assembly line.
  • Work starts on the Australian Capital, Canberra.
  • First Crossword Puzzle

1914

  • Charlie Chaplin makes his first silent movies (including the Little Tramp).
  • Franz Ferdinand assassinated. World War One begins.
  • Battle of the Marne
  • First Traffic Light
  • Panama Canal Officially Opened

1915

  • Australians land at Gallipoli on the Turkish coast.
  • Paris is bombed by German zeppelins.
  • Armenian Genocide
  • D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation Released
  • Germans Use Poison Gas as a Weapon
  • //Lusitania// Sunk by German U-Boat
  • Second Battle of Ypres

1916

  • Battle of the Somme.
  • First self-service grocery store, USA.
  • Battle of Verdun
  • Easter Rising in Ireland

1917


1918

  • Hostilities cease on the Western Front.
  • Worldwide influenza epidemic strikes.
  • Daylight Saving Time Introduced
  • Russian Czar Nicholas II and His Family are Killed

1919

  • Prohibition of alcohol in North America.
  • Versailles Treaty signed by Allies and Germany